For me velcro is the key. Warthog stick and throttle, DA trim panel, 3 Logitech/Saitek panels stacked on top each other, rudder pedals are ALL velcroed down. Cheap and very strong (the industrial strength velcro). And yet I can move them by just pulling (with quite a bit of force) and unzipping them and then set them aside.

My driving wheel (Thomas brand) is clamped on the desk over to the side and out of the way. To use it, I unclamp it and then clamp it in the center where my keyboard normally sits and move the keboard to my lap. unvelcro the flying pedals and slide them straight back towards the wall where the Thomas driving pedals normally sit. In other words exchange the pedals by sliding them back and forward.

Pedals base will not move a millimeter if velcroed down. Any pedals, any brand. And if the bottom velcro strips are longer/wider than the velcro strips on the pedals, then you can just pick up the pedals set them back down and they lock in that new position, takes 10 seconds.

The only thing that stays put on my desk pretty much all the time is my TQ6 throttle.  It’s out of my way good enough that it’s not worth it to take it off.

Other than that I usually have to set up my desk for whatever I want to do, whether that’s a stick based or yoke based flight setup, whether it’s an aircraft that i can use my realsimgear equipment or my Skalarki equipment, using my driving sim setup (for that I have my pedals, steering wheel, shifter all mounted on a moveable frame), or leaving the desk empty for games that don’t need any of those peripherals.

I have a small shelf that came from ikea beside my sim area to store all the stuff not being used.

@regis9 That sounds like a marvellous set up. I hadn't heard of Skalarki before, so thanks for sharing. One day, I will have the deskspace for a Yoko yoke and a 6 lever throttle!

Thanks!  I’m pretty proud of it.

On 8/26/2021 at 5:06 PM, Penzoil3 said:

PC dedicated to gaming, but Hotas, throttle quadrant and rudder are permanent.

 

Penzoil, is that a model of a B-17G I see in the background? Any story behind that -- relative that fiew one perhaps? My dad was a B-17F command pilot in the 8th AF during the summer and fall of 1943 when they flew missions deep into and through Germany with no fighter escort at all. To this day you'll find reminders like that model in the dens and studies of my brother's and my houses. Dad left us in 2017 at the age of 98. His bombardier passed about 6 months before he did, also at age 98, and that sort of took the wind out of Dad's sails.

I dabbled with FS and FSX about 20 years ago but never had the time to get serious about it. Now retired, I became very excited about MFS 2020 but had  serious trouble finding the parts I needed for a new dedicated computer build. I started in June 2020 and finally completed it with all peripherals in Jan. of this year, but with a placeholder CPU and GPU (both upgraded since), I was able to get MFS going on Aug. 18th (it's surprising how smoothly it worked with an old RX 570). The rig now sits in a previously vacant bedroom and takes up about half of it. That computer is used for nothing else, so everything is mounted to a long, deep, Ikea desk/table. The constituents are listed below. I fretted about getting Ethernet to it but decided to try my mesh Wi-Fi first before going to the trouble -- works like a charm with 400+ mbs to that room, which is faster than my 200mbs Internet feed.

Edited August 31, 20214 yr by milleron

Friend of Mom, and mine was a B-17 Pilot, went down over Germany and spent 2 years in a POW camp. His Name was Charles Bousquet. Chuck wouldn't talk about the camp, but loved the bird. I fly it in my sims to remember him. Loved that guy.

Edited September 2, 20214 yr by Penzoil3